From thirty to seventy

The old redwood shingle home at the top Bancroft Way in Berkeley was torn down in the early 1960s. There was nothing structurally very wrong with it. For many years it had housed the nursery school of the Institute of Human Development. For some decades, also, the institute research staff had worked there, and all through the 1930s the parents whose lives are at the heart of this book had climbed the stairs of that redwood house, bringing their children for interviews and tests and staying themselves to discuss their family life as part of the longitudinal studies of the institute.